BPage 478
- English Word Buscon Definition One who searches for ores; a prospector.
- English Word Bush Definition A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
- English Word Bush Definition A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
- English Word Bush Definition A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
- English Word Bush Definition A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- English Word Bush Definition The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- English Word Bush Definition To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
- English Word Bush Definition To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
- English Word Bush Definition To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
- English Word Bush Definition A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.
- English Word Bush Definition A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- English Word Bush Definition To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
- English Word Bushboy Definition See Bushman.
- English Word Bushed Definition of Bush
- English Word Bushel Definition A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
- English Word Bushel Definition A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
- English Word Bushel Definition A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
- English Word Bushel Definition A large indefinite quantity.
- English Word Bushel Definition The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
- English Word Bushelage Definition A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.